Quotes by Tree ... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest. Lee Friedlander informationphotographytree We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I walk the streets I do not see afforestation written with conviction on the harried faces of my fellow citizens. Learned Hand citiesnew-yorktree We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received. Learned Hand foreststreethinking He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch. Lee Child redneckuglytree The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak Leila Aboulela clayoceantree Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! Leigh Hunt poetryjusticetree A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot. Laozi taoismtreemen The rigid tree will be felled. Laozi taoismtree The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout. Laozi armsgrewtree I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. Leonard Cohen lilacarmstree When we exhale, a tree breathes in. Les Stroud breathetree Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow. Les Dawson weeping-willowsfamilytree Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves. Leslie Marmon Silko riverstreeanimal The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross is indeed king - conqueror of death and sin, Lord and Savior of all. The resurrection is not the reversal of a defeat but the proclamation of a victory. The King reigns from the tree. The reign of God has indeed come upon us, and its sign is not a golden throne but a wooden cross. Lesslie Newbigin kingstreejesus The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber. Lew Wallace lighttreebird Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard. Lewis Grizzard growsmoneytree Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. Lev Grossman intelligentwould-betree I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic. Liam Gallagher tree To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. Leonardo da Vinci delightdoetree Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed. Libba Bray rainforevertree«6162636465666768697071»
